Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026): JULY[DOI:10.37785/nw.v10n2] Aesthetic tensions in the argentine un derground cinema. The case of The united family awaiting the arrival of Hallewyn Article Sidebar Text Complete: PDF (Spanish) MHT (Spanish) Published: 2026-07-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v10n2.a1 Keywords: Array, Array, Array, Array Main Article Content Enzo Moreira Facca CICPBA-UNICEN Abstract The argentine underground filmmakers from the ‘70s tried to create a fictional cinema that mixed the artistic avant-gard with the socio-political meditation in an unprecedented way in national cinema. This problematic tension between both elements is comparable with some meditations that made up The Aesthetic Theory (2004), where Theodor Adorno points out a negative dialectical relationship between the autonomous elements of the art pieces and the heteronomous ones. This means: those elements that are inherent to art and those that belongs to the empirical world, and where it’s impossible to perceive an artistic work without each other. In this paper we aim to comprehend the relations between the experimentation with film resources —the autonomous— and reflection on the social world of the time —the heteronomous— present in the debut film by the underground director Miguel Bejo (The united family awaiting the arrival of Hallewyn). DOWNLOADS Download data is not yet available. Article Details How to Cite Moreira Facca, E. (2026). Aesthetic tensions in the argentine un derground cinema. The case of The united family awaiting the arrival of Hallewyn. Nawi, 10(2), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v10n2.a1 More Citation Formats ABNT ACM ACS AMA APA Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX References Adorno, T. (2004 [1970]). Teoría estética. Madrid: Akal. Bejo, M. (1973). Un cine de transición. Hablemos de Cine, Nº 65, 20-21. Bürger, P. (2010 [1974]). La obra de arte vanguardista. En Bürger, P. La Teoría de la vanguardia. Buenos Aires: Las Cuarenta. Danto, A. (2009). Introducción: Moderno, posmoderno, contemporáneo. En Danto, A. Después del fin del arte. Buenos Aires, Paidós. Guarnaccia, T. (03 de octubre, 2023). Acá y en otros lugares: una entrevista con Miguel Bejo. En Con los ojos abiertos. https://www.conlosojosabiertos.com/aca-y-en-otros-lugares-una-entrevista-con-miguel-bejo/ León Frías, I. (2013). El nuevo cine latinoamericano de los años sesenta. Entre el mito político y la modernidad fílmica. Lima: Fondo Editorial. López, D. (11 de enero, 1972). Cine argentino, hoy. El heraldo del cine, año 41°, N° 2105, volumen XLII, 14. Ludueña, J. (1973). La ficción de la ficción es la realidad. Hablemos de Cine, N° 65, 18-19. Russo, E. (2002). El efecto Brecht en pantalla. Distanciamiento y reflexividad en el espectador de cine. En Yoel, G. (comp.) Imagen, política y memoria. Buenos Aires: Libros del Rojas. Sarlo, B. (2017). La máquina cultural. Muestras, traductores y vanguardistas. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI. Schoo, E. (10 al 16 de agosto, 1972). Un nuevo cine argentino: destruir, dicen. Revista Panorama, Año X, Nº 276, 54-55. Wolkowicz, P. (2022). La vía subterránea. Vanguardia y política en el cine under argentino. Buenos Aires: Libraria. Wood, R. (1979). An introduction to american horror film. En Wood, R. y Lippe, R. (eds.). American nightmare: Essays on the horror film. Toronto: Festival of festivals. Filmografía … (Puntos suspensivos) (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1971). Alianza para el progreso (Julio Ludueña, 1971). Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Sergio Leone, 1966). La familia unida esperando la llegada de Hallewyn (Miguel Bejo, 1971). La frusta e il corpo (Mario Bava, 1963). Issue Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026): JULY[DOI:10.37785/nw.v10n2] Section ARTICLES Author Biography Enzo Moreira Facca, CICPBA-UNICEN Enzo Moreira Facca is a doctoral scholar by the Cientific Investigations Comission of the Province of Buenos Aires (CICPBA) and doctoral candidate by the UNLP. He is dedicated to the estudy of modern argentine cinema (1960-1980), specifically the local. underground cinema, its aesthetics, teories and history. He holds a BA in audiovisual arts by the Faculty of Arts of the UNCPBA and researcher of the Center of Studies of Theatre, Education and Cultural Consuptions (TECC) in the same institution. How to Cite Moreira Facca, E. (2026). Aesthetic tensions in the argentine un derground cinema. The case of The united family awaiting the arrival of Hallewyn. Nawi, 10(2), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v10n2.a1 More Citation Formats ABNT ACM ACS AMA APA Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX This work is under a Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional. Comments and suggestions on the article Managing Director Jorge Polo Blanco, PhD. polo@espol.edu.ec ESPOL - FADCOM Executive Director Nayeth Solorzano, PhD. nsolorza@espol.edu.ec ESPOL - FADCOM
